Our first visit was in june 2008. The rehabilitation centre of Chom Chau is situated 10kms outside Phnom Phenh, its sign barely visible to the outside world...We went in not knowing what we would find. Forty older children, all under 18 receive  help to put their lives back on track. They have so little that we call them 'THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN', we at the Elephant Blanc are the only charity who help them. We provide basic necessities and additional food that they badly need.

The first things we provided, and still do, were extra food, towels, soap, washing powder, pens to write or draw with..... Things they had never had. We then gave them 50cents(U.S.)each because we didn't know what else they needed.

For now we are simply continuing to supply them with basic necessities. Clothing, toiletries and food, principally sacks of rice, because they can't even procure enough rice to feed the children adequately. Aline Fitte pays them a visit every time she goes to Cambodia.

 

Just about everything! But principally food clothes and toiletries. For this we need material things as much  as money.

The boy in the photo is twelve years old. How long will he be in the institution? Illiterate, with noone to teach him, (since the days of the Khmer Rouge Cambodia has no school system) What does the future hold?